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POW Killer- -j(NEA Telephoto)Pvt. Clarence V. Bertucci, above, 23, of New Orleans, veteran of 41/a years* Army service, is accused of having fired a machinegun at tents of sleeping Germanprisoners of war at Salina, Utah,killing eight and wounding 20. At loss to explain the soldier’s actions, Army officials said he apparently went berserk,** ,,GERMAN KILLER OBSERVED TODAYSalma, Utah, July' 10—«U.R—Pvt. Clarence V. Bertucci was under mental observation today after admitting that he sprayed machine-gun bullets on a group of war prisoners while they slept, killing eight and wounding 20, because he “just didn’t like Germans.”Col. Arthur J. Ericsson, spokesman for the branch prisoners camp near here, reported that Bertucci had been unable to account for his shooting orgy Sunday night, during which he fired a mounted gun from the guard tower where he was on duty.Ericsson quoted Bertucci as saying that on several occasions he had been tempted to turn the tower gun on the prisoners and was “not at all sorry” for what he had done.“He just didn’t like Germans,” the colonel said.No other reason was given.Bodies of the eight dead prisoners were taken to Brigham, Utah,(Concluded, on Page Six)
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